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Yes, a developer's edition. I'll take a heavier, larger device with more and varied ports and extended battery life please. An all-hardware keyboard with a useful arrow-key configuration that doesn't make me press the wrong key all the time. An actual 'esc' key so I have my caps lock key back.

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That sounds like a regular laptop

Is there a petition I can sign? Will pay 20% on top.

While I'm dreaming, I want a smaller touch pad too. That's right where your hands rest. I'm constantly having issues with moving the pointer because of unwanted touches being recognized.

I've been using this machine for 6 months now, and as an iOS dev I'm locked in. But I don't love it, even if they thought I was gonna.

FWIW, not resting your hand/wrist but keeping your hand parallel to the floor will reduce your chance of inflaming your carpal tunnel.

Consider the large touch pad a gift from Apple in this regard :-)...

Ok i will try.

My piano teacher had me play scales with a coin on the back of my hand, if that helps.

If you look at the anatomy of the wrist you’ll see the problem. It’s worse for woman who have been pregnant (the lining sells for some reason and stays that way)

This is a bit of a side note, but I remapped my caps lock key to escape and it makes things a lot easier.

I've done that too. It's an improvement, but it's made things a little more difficult in other ways - like for some reason it's very easy for me to confuse Tab and Escape/capslock now. In some typing scenarios, I just can't seem to keep them straight.

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